Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization 
Democracy Dashboard
Location Oakland, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Political organizer and technologist Dan Ancona builds and evangelizes online tools that strengthen democracy. He helped create and build interest in numerous products in fifteen years at several startups and in academia (with a research focus on visualization), but since 2006 has been accelerating the shift from top-down, broadcast style politics
to a more networked and person-to-person system at California VoterConnect and TargetSmart Communications, and he is the co-founder and CEO of Democracy Dashboard. His other interests include urban design, economics, strategic communications, DJing and sailing. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and fellow organizer Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, their son Marco, and their extraordinarily large and friendly cat, Oscar.
